This should be interesting, I would definitely will go later to the local shop and check the prices on the games and see the console first hand. The official site doesn't mention the costs of extra controllers and other accessories but so far sound like a good gift for a money conscious family with kids.

Squarepusher strikes me as one of those people that "can't have a real argument using facts" types.

Making comments regarding someone who disagrees with you and regarding him as theaverage college-grad American schoolkid to explain why he disagees with you? Yep that about shows your personality.

Squarepusher: there ARE lobbyists, there ARE PR propagandists engaged on forums in case you hadn't noticed.

You are the one who really needs to get a clue, psychologically people create bonds with the brands they use, aided by marketing campaigns (remember Genesis does?) that plus the need people get to defend their purchases makes the need for your so called lobbylists and PR propagandist unnecessary. You read too much into the lines.

Ahh by the way the this consumer need to justify what you buy also goes the other way around and in the case of some people feeling disappointed with their purchase, like buying multiple iterations of a console to have the latest one (among many reasons) will make them lash out to the manufacturer (justifiably so) for making their last purchase obsolete in their eyes.

Big drama? Here are some comments that do make it a big drama:

Ah, another 'Nintendo'/'Microsoft'/'Sony' fanboy/apologist/whatever.
What's 'idiotic' is releasing two-three consecutive versions of the same bloody thing for more or less the same price.
There are a bunch of multi-million dollar company apologists on this forum that don't want to hear anything negative coming out of the mouth from the plebeian customer.

Forums are about debating on topics people enjoy and engaging in smart fact based arguments, that's what make it fun, you well no comments.

And now it really is end of discussion.

Sure lets go for the fanboy exits since its the easiest, I don't seem to be defending any company if you care to read what I wrote, all I did was point out how flawed your view is and it seems you ran out of arguments and can't admit when you are wrong.

Let me make it more clear: You said that the DS should have PowerVR SGX, that Nintendo should have put it in the DS since the console was first released, you kept talking about how patetic it was not to include it before because of the graphics look bad, blah, blah.

My point is that people don't care as long as the games are good, also since it has older technology it was cheaper to build and hence people pay less for it which, unless you come with a new "theory" or kept doing your fanboy excuse, they are usually happy to do.

So you see? No defending company just trashing your comment with facts, I know everyone is entitled to their opinion but you just seem to fail to notice that all the missing "cool tech" that you mentioned made the system cheaper and that is a good thing for people and they showed it buying, no one cared about that but you, so in case you want to make another comment check what you write and don't include everyone else but you that way you don't invite to responses from the very people you mention on you comment.